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 Assistant
Professor
Office: Herter 621
Telephone: (413) 545-6761
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: anash@history.umass.edu
Degree: Ph.D., Columbia (1997).
Field(s) of interest: Native American history, Early American
History.
Graduate Courses Offered:
ALANA Communities and Civil Rights
Researching Early New England and New France (Not Online)
Theory and Method in Native American History (Not Online)
History 170 -- Indigenous Peoples of North America
www.courses.umass.edu/hist170
History 393I --Indigenous Women
www.courses.umass.edu/hist393i
Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Nash held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Université
de Montréal (Canada) for 2003-04. Her research interests
center on the impact of colonization on the indigenous peoples of
northeastern North America with a particular interest in family
and gender relations. Recent publications include "Antic Deportments
and Indian Postures: Embodiment in Anglo-Indian New England,"
in Lindman and Tarter, eds., "A Centre of Wonders":
The Body in Early America (Cornell UP 2001); “‘None
of the women were abused’: Indigenous Contexts for the Treatment
of Women Captives in the Northeast,” in Merril Smith, ed.,
Sex Without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America
(NYU Press, 2001); an online review of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum
and Research Center, “Still
Pequot After All These Years,” in Common-place: The
Interactive Journal of Early American Life 1:1 (September 2000);
and three articles in French translation published in Recherches
amérindiennes au Québec: “Odanak durant
les années 1920 : un prisme reflétant l’histoire
des abénaquis (Odanak in the 1920s: A Prism of Abenaki History),:
trans. Claude Gélinas (32/2 :2002); “La linguistique
liturgique du père Aubéry : Aperçu ethnohistorique
(Father Aubery’s Liturgical Linguistics: An Ethnohistorical
View),” co-authored with Nicholas N. Smith, trans. Nicole
Beaudry (33/2: 2003); and “Théophile Panadis (1889-1966),
un guide abénaquis (Théophile Panadis (1889-1966):
An Abenaki Guide),” co-authored with Réjean Obomsawin,
trans. Claude Gélinas (33/2: 2003). Her first book, The
Abiding Frontier: Family, Gender and Religion in Wabanaki History,
1600-1763, will be published by the University of Massachusetts
Press. She is currently serving as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History.
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